The Philosophy Book

259 See also: Georg Hegel 178–85 ■ Karl Marx 196–203 ■ Martin Heidegger 252–55 ■ Slavoj Žižek 326 A t first glance, nothing seem ...

260 HISTORY DOES NOT BELONG TO US BUT WE BELONG TO IT HANS-GEORG GADAMER (1900–2002) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Philosophy of history APP ...

261 When viewing historical objects we should not view time as a gulf to be bridged, says Gadamer. Its distance is filled with t ...

262 IN SO FAR AS A SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT SPEAKS ABOUT REALITY, IT MUST BE FALSIFIABLE KARL POPPER (1902–1994) IN CONTEXT BRANCH P ...

263 See also: Socrates 46–49 ■ Aristotle 56–63 ■ Francis Bacon 110–11 ■ David Hume 148–53 ■ Rudolf Carnap 257 ■ Thomas Kuhn 293 ...

264 experiences of similar occasions on which we have found things like balls to fall to the ground when we release them. Deduct ...

265 arguments. The banana-flavored cat argument, as we have seen, is valid but not sound—whereas the argument about apples and f ...

266 INTELLIGENCE IS A MORAL CATEGORY THEODOR ADORNO (1903–1969) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Ethics APPROACH Frankfurt School BEFORE 1st ce ...

267 Lighthearted television is inherently dangerous, says Adorno, because it distorts the world and imbues us with stereotypes a ...

268 EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (1905–1980) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Ethics APPROACH Existentialism BEFORE 4th century ...

269 See also: Aristotle 56–63 ■ Søren Kierkegaard 194–95 ■ Martin Heidegger 252–55 ■ Simone de Beauvoir 276–77 ■ Albert Camus 28 ...

270 his atheism. There is no universal, fixed human nature, he declares, because no God exists who could ordain such a nature. H ...

271 Sartre’s idea that we are free to shape our own lives influenced the students that took to the streets of Paris in May 1968 ...

272 See also: St Augustine of Hippo 72–73 ■ Thomas Aquinas 88–95 ■ Theodor Adorno 266–67 I n 1961, the philosopher Hannah Arendt ...

273 See also: Edmund Husserl 224–25 ■ Roland Barthes 290–91 ■ Luce Irigaray 320 ■ Hélène Cixous 322 ■ Julia Kristeva 323 L evina ...

274 IN ORDER TO SEE THE WORLD, WE MUST BREAK WITH OUR FAMILIAR ACCEPTANCE OF IT MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY (1908–1961) IN CONTEXT BRA ...

275 See also: Aristotle 56–63 ■ Edmund Husserl 224–25 ■ Ludwig Wittgenstein 246–51 ■ Martin Heidegger 252–55 ■ Jean-Paul Sartre ...

276 MAN IS DEFINED AS A HUMAN BEING AND WOMAN AS A FEMALE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908–1986) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Ethics APPROACH Femin ...

277 The many myths of woman as mother, wife, virgin, symbol of nature, and so on trap women, claimed de Beauvoir, into impossibl ...

278 LANGUAGE IS A SOCIAL ART WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE (1908–2000) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Philosophy of language APPROACH Analytic phil ...